dyce. Eulalia Peace saye not so. xan. wel yet
thus it is, then when he commeth home to me at midnight,
longe watched for, he lyeth rowtyng lyke a sloyne
all the leue longe nyght, yea and now and then he
all bespeweth his bed, and worse then I will say at
this tyme. Eulali. Peace thou dyshonesteth
thy self, when thou doest dishonesteth thy husband.
xantip. The deuyl take me bodye and bones but
I had leuer lye by a sow with pigges, then with
suche a bedfelowe. Eulali. Doest thou
not then take him vp, wel favoredly for stumbling.
Xantip. As he deserueth I spare no tonge.
Eulalia. what doth he then. xantip. At the first
breake he toke me vp vengeably, trusting that he
shoulde haue shaken me of and put me to scilence
with his crabid wordes. Eula Came neuer your
hote wordes vnto handstrokes. xantip. On a
tyme we fel so farre at wordes that we wer almost
by ye eares togither. Eula what say you woman?
xan. He toke vp a staffe wandryng at me, as
the deuill had bene on hym ready to laye me on the
bones. Eula. were thou not redye to ron in
at the bench hole. xanti. Nay mary I warrant the.
I gat me a thre foted stole in hand, & he had but
ones layd his littell finger on me, he shulde not
haue founde me lame. I woulde haue holden his
nose to the grindstone Eulalia. A newe found
shelde, ye wanted but youre dystaffe to haue made
you a speare. xantip. And he shoulde not greatlye
a laughed at his parte. Eulali. Ah my
frynde. xantyppa. that way is neither good nor godly,
xantippa what is neither good nor godly. yf he wyll
not vse me, as hys wyfe: I wil not take him
for my husbande. Eulalya. But Paule sayeth
that wyues shoulde bee boner and buxome vnto their
husbandes with all humylytye, and Peter also bryngethe
vs an example of Sara, that called her husbande
Abrahame, Lorde. xantippa. I know that as well
as you then ye same paule say that men shoulde loue
theyr wyues, as Christ loues his spouse the churche
let him do his duete I wil do myne. Eula.
But for all that, when the matter is so farre that
the one muste forber the other it is reason that
the woman giue place vnto the man, xan. Is
he meete to be called my husbande that maketh me
his vnderlynge and his dryuel? Eula. But
tel me dame xantip. Would he neuer offre the
stripes after that xantip. Not a stripe, and
therin he was the wyser man for & he had he should
haue repented euery vayne in hys harte. Eulali.
But thou offered him foule wordes plentie, xantip.
And will do. Eula. What doth he ye meane
season. xantip. What doth he sometyme cowcheth
an hogeshed, somtime he doth nothing but stande
and laughe at me, other whyle takethe hys Lute wheron
is scarslie three strynges layenge on that as fast
as he may dryue because he would not here me.
Eula. Doeth that greue thee? xantippa.
To beyonde home, manie a tyme I haue much a do to
hold my handes. Eula. Neighbour. xantip.
wylt thou gyue me leaue to be playn with the. xantippa
Good leaue haue you. Eula. Be as bolde
on me agayne our olde acquayntaunce and amite, euen